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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Twenty years later, two families faced the man who killed their loved ones for the first time Thursday morning. Thomas Maupin, 71, admitted to killing Patricia Thornton and Nancy Alvis. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. “We had to make a reduction because a number of key witnesses […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn — A 38-year-old man is accused of fondling and attempting to rape his mentally disabled teenage relative in a South Memphis home. Charles Munford is charged with attempted rape and aggravated sexual battery. He is in jail on $20,000 bond with a court date set for Monday. On Sunday, a woman told police […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A convicted rapist left his dentures at a crime scene, and they had his name stenciled on them. But it took 15 years for the state lab to examine the dentures and evidence collected from the victim and even longer for an arrest. Now investigators say while that rapist walked free, he […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Texas’ new abortion law made no exceptions in cases of rape, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott defended it with an assurance: Texas would get to work eliminating rapes. One year later, Lindsey LeBlanc is busy as ever helping rape victims in a college town outside Houston. “The numbers have stayed consistently […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis grandmother told police her 16-year-old grandaughter was raped by a man she met on Facebook. The grandmother contacted police after she said a man, now identified as Phillip Glasper, contacted her granddaughter on Facebook, telling her he would take her shopping last week. Instead, the 16-year-old girl said he took […]

South Florida DJ and music producer Erick Morillo was found dead at his home Tuesday morning, weeks after being charged with sexual battery, authorities said.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County’s mayor is pushing for Tennessee to enact a statewide minimum wage of at least $15 an hour. Mayor Lee Harris said this week a statewide minimum wage would be one of the top priorities in his legislative agenda. “It is past time for the State of Tennessee to adopt a […]

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A Lafayette teen is putting a horrific crime behind him while recovering from the near-death experience. On June 20, 2020, Holden White was tortured until his attacker thought he was dead. Now White, an openly gay young man, is pressing for hate crime charges. It’s been seven months since a meetup […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with no possibility of parole for a 2006 rape case, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced Thursday. Joshua Beadle, 31, was convicted of breaking into an apartment complex on Jefferson Place near North Danny Thomas where he raped a 22-year-old woman, […]

A Mid-South man with a history of violent crimes has been indicted in the 2001 murders of two women in Frayser.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A jury reportedly took less than an hour to convict a man of a 2019 rape, according to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. The DA’s office says Frederick Leon Peat, 43, was convicted Wednesday of aggravated rape after a three-day trial. Peat is accused of attacking a 50-year-old woman at an […]